Yang Sichang is undoubtedly a very capable person, and his debut was quite impressive. In the response to Emperor Chongzhen, Yang Sichang's conversation had strategy, jihua, military salaries, and commanders. We can also compare, compared to Yuan Chonghuan's platform summons at that time, the performance of the two is really a world of difference!

The only question now is whether Yang Sichang's strategy can solve the real problem. What I'm most afraid of is to be like Zhao Kuo and talk on paper. But no matter what, Emperor Chongzhen still got a treasure, so he immediately let Yang Sichang go and do a big job.

Don't mention that Yang Sichang is busy preparing his "ten-sided net", let's mention Wu Shigong in Runing first!

During this time, Wu Shigong was first newly organized into the Runing Army.

The first was to form a cavalry regiment and merge the two cavalry regiments to form a cavalry town, named Pegasus Town. Li Sanhe became the commander of Pegasus Town, and the commanders of the two cavalry regiments were Liang Hui and Zug. However, in Wu Shigong's Jihua, in the future, Pegasus Town will form three cavalry legions, a mobile group of 10,000 cavalry.

The Guide Corps moved west to the headquarters and was renamed the Runing Corps. The Baggage Regiment was reorganized into the Main Battle Regiment and renamed the Rubei Legion. The commander of the Rubei Army was Yu Ji, and Yuan Shizhong was the deputy commander.

The Runing Army also formed a heavy artillery regiment directly under it, and together with the artillery regiment directly under it, it was formed into an artillery corps, and the commander of the corps was still Xiong Zhengen.

In addition, the direct engineer regiment was separated. The head of the regiment is Yao Liang, and the deputy head of the regiment is Fu Sheng.

The above units, together with the Teaching Legion and the Rotational Training Legion, form the new Tiger Roar Town. Tiger Roar Town has 17,000 soldiers, and the commander is He Fei.

And Qian Qi's Runing Army will be renamed Runan Army this time, and the future garrison will be in Runan. A separate regiment and a separate cavalry battalion were formed in Guide. A new Guide Corps was formed, and the commander of the corps was Shumo. In order to strengthen the strength of the Guide Corps, Wu Shigong also transferred two militia groups to Guide and placed them under the command of Shumo.

As for the Nanyang Army and the regimental training town, there was not much change this time, and it was still under the command of Zhou Xun. However, the current regimental training town has grown to more than 13,000 people, including more than 1,000 cavalry, and its strength is getting bigger and bigger.

And in Xinyang, a new Marine Regiment will be formed. The two Marine Divisions will be merged into the Marine Corps. The corps commander is temporarily vacant, and Gonzalez will be the deputy corps commander and commander of the new Marine Division.

In particular, in addition to the cavalry, it is noted. This time, the Rubei Army and the Guide Army were composed of 30% of the officers and soldiers and 70% of the conscripts. Conscripts, on the other hand, receive only one percent of their salary, and their service period is not eight years, but only three years. It's just that after retiring, each person can be allocated ten acres of land or enter the Department of Internal Affairs, workshops and other Runing military institutions.

Wu Shigong formed such an army to prepare for the future riots. If the effect is ok. Wu Shigong will gradually reorganize the five militia regiments and regimental training towns into such an army.

Because the combat bureau of the Military Orders Department was empty, Wu Shigong transferred three more outstanding regiment commanders. The personnel changes at the bottom will not be detailed. Anyway, a considerable number of good-performing officers were promoted.

Yang Goudan's workshop division worked overtime again, but this time there were some dual-use items that could be produced by a civilian workshop such as Bian's Iron Workshop, so there was no problem with equipping them on time.

The only thing that is a little troublesome is the war horse. The horse farm owned by the Runing Army has formed a scale, providing more than 800 horses per year. But Henan is not a pasture after all, so the most of these horses that can be used as combat horses is about 100.

Therefore, this time the new Runing Army was formed. Wu Shigong will buy 4,000 war horses. And now because the world is in turmoil, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is rampant outside the Guan, the price of war horses is very high, and it is more than fifty taels for very ordinary ones.

Although two great victories have seized huge amounts of property. The finances of the Runing Army were also suddenly strained again. Moreover, the large investment of the Runing Army was not only this, because Li Lu became the chief soldier of Nanyang, and Zhou Xun began to clear the remnants of the bandits between Yexian and Nanyang in accordance with Wu Shigong's order, and began to restore the production of part of the original Nanyang iron mine.

The restoration of the mining area and the construction of new iron and iron workshops required large sums of silver. Fortunately, due to Ye Zhong's concealment, the imperial court did not know that peace had been restored to this area, otherwise, if the Nanyang Iron Mine was returned to the inner court again, Wu Shigong's investment would be in vain.

But even if he had silver, he couldn't buy so many war horses all of a sudden, so Wu Shigong could only equip the horses first, and then let Wu Shili contact his eldest brother Wu Shixun and buy them slowly through his relationship with Taifu Temple.

And another thing that Wu Shigong cares about is, of course, to go to Liu Guoneng's department in the Dabie Mountains.

Due to the connivance and covert support of the Runing Army, the strength of Liu Guoneng's troops expanded quite rapidly, and they also entered a weakly defended area. So when they arrived at Dabie Mountain, Liu Guoneng's peasant army had expanded to more than 60,000 people.

Such a huge force of men and horses naturally attracted the remnants of the peasant army hiding in the Dabie Mountains to vote one after another, so Liu Guoneng's troops swelled to nearly 80,000 people.

But what Wu Shigong is worried about now is one thing, he does not want Liu Guoneng to rely on Dabie Mountain as a base to go to the nearby areas to make a small fuss, but wants Liu Guoneng to go to Nanjing and stir up the areas near Nanjing into a mess of porridge.

But Liu Guoneng already has such a huge strength, will he still obey Wu Shigong's command? To be honest, Wu Shigong has no bottom in his heart. Moreover, Wu Shigong was also afraid that Liu Guoneng would bite back, and in turn invade Runan or Guide through Fengyang Mansion.

Therefore, the main force of the Runing Army is still tilting to the south, just to guard against Liu Guoneng's counterattack. Moreover, if Liu Guoneng does not listen to the command, Wu Shigong will send troops again to completely wipe out Liu Guoneng's troops. Otherwise, the Runing Army will face the dilemma of fighting on two fronts.

Therefore, Wu Shigong's secret recruitment of Liu Guoneng this time was a completely risky move. Recently, Wu Shigong himself has been a little uncertain. He sometimes laughs at himself and thinks: Am you a little self-inflicted?

Fortunately, so far, Liu Guoneng has not been disobedient to the command. However, Wu Shigong definitely did not dare to take it lightly, he still paid attention to the situation of Liu Guoneng's ministry at all times.

And it was in this situation that in February of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the messenger came to Runing Mansion, and he read it to Wu Shigong: Wu Shigong was promoted to the general army of Runing, and asked Wu Shigong to rush to the capital to report on his work on a certain day. (To be continued......)